Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.